UNFORTUNATE ENCOUNTER. 
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forming light and elegant rafts upon the water. 
Alodg the weedy margin a few sanderlings and 
plovers were feeding, and as we looked across, a 
wild duck suddenly emerged from the rushes, and 
with great noise, and sj)lashing with his wings, 
struck across the shallow water. 
We cooked our crabs, smoked our pipes, and 
spent a glorious day. The incidents which befell 
some of our party were neither numerous nor sen- 
sational, yet, perhaps, they deserve some mention. 
As we were sauntering along, the little dog “ Dash,” 
pricking up his ears, disappeared in a very excited 
state in the bush, but shortly made his appearance 
discomfited and crest-fallen. His cars and mouth 
were scratched and bleeding, and we imagined he 
had done battle with a marten or a badger, and had 
got the worst of it. B also had an unfortunate 
encounter, though the result in his case was that 
he was more alarmed than hurt. While patiently 
fishing ill the stream, he was bitten by a snake. . 
The doctor of course was at once sent for, and his 
attention was* directed to the wound with a look of 
